(Juan Rodriguez, Somesh Adiraju, Joel Gauci, Markus Grohmann, Davin Homes, Tamika Moody, Srinivasan Muralidharan, Christian Ramirez and Adolfo Rodriguez) IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances represent an important element in IBM’s holistic approach to Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). IBM SOA a

(Dan Wahlin) Silverlight 2.0 provides a new and exciting framework for building rich applications using C#, VB.NET or other languages that are capable of running on multiple operating systems and in multiple browsers. Scott Guthrie recently posted a great set of tutorials on Silverlight 2.0 that are

(David Carver) I work with XML pretty much on a daily basis. While working on adding XPath templates to the XSL Tooling project, I was reintroduced to an XML anti-design pattern I see way too often.

(NelsonKostaSouto) INI files and the registry are generally things of the past for .NET applications. But what to use? XML seems appropriate, but one look at System.XML is enough to scare most developers off, especially just to store a few fields. Fortunately, there is a very easy way in .NET to sol

(Sergey Dubinets) I am confessing that in Orcas we did a breaking change in the XslCompiledTransform.

(Matt Nicholson) Developers have long been building applications around Microsoft Office, using its rich API to build complex business solutions. However until now this has usually meant either running Microsoft Office in an unattended server mode, which is extremely resource intensive and not suppo

(Jason Weathersby) BIRT Report Engine provides report rendering extensions that render a report in HTML, PDF, XLS, PostScript, and Microsoft Word and PowerPoint. In BIRT release 2.2.1, the BIRT report rendering extension API supports rendering a report in a customized format, such as XML.

(Jeni Tennison) I’m still thinking about doing automatic markup with XML pipelines, and the kind of components that you might need in such a pipeline. These are the useful ones (list inspired by the components offered by GATE): –a tokeniser that uses regular expressions to add markup to plain te

(rrees) I have previously found XML Schema to completely invaluable in defining interface points between systems. Normally file interfaces between systems are done in formats that are deceptively simple: CSV, structured text files. However in nearly all cases the initial simplicity tends to lead to

(brent.wjh) About 3 months ago, I was asked to work out a program running on Pocket PC with .Net Compact FrameWork. It is a program drawing rooms and calculating the geometrical parameters and exporting them to XML file. The program itself , should be able to save the rooms to files and load from th